ALTBAYS

Welcome to ALTBAYS Show. (feat. Leo Magri, Te Paea Puha)  Meet Billie Hunter, Gym owner and language enthusiast. Being an organised person can take you a long way;  A risky move becomes the right move. Why are we not making more significant efforts to keep indigenous knowledge alive and in evidence? Well, Billie has a take on that. In this fantastic show, we chat about the importance of learning M...

Welcome to ALTBAYS Show (Feat. Christine Threadgold and Leo Magri)  Meet Chris Baillie and Paul Martin. Chris Baillie and Paul Martin (The Stalkers) could tell stories for the whole night, and we would not get tired of it. Watching the Ramones playing in 78, bringing Van Morrison to the good old drinking life, shaking the hand of Airbone’s singing until he gets uncomfortable, and how playing naked...

Welcome to ALTBAYS Show (feat. Brett Soanes and Leo Magri) Roimata keeps his veins open so the arts can run through freely. If you are going to talk to the youth about their lives, you got to keep your mind young and free of judgement; it sounds simple, but quite rare these days.   Roimata is connected to the land where he lives and his understanding of the importance of community work keeps him g...

Welcome to ALTBAYS Show (Feat. Fabian Roberts and Leo Magri) When your life’s timeline provides stories that involve visiting more than 50 countries worldwide, you know that you will never get lost. Lisl treats us with stories about growing up in South Africa during the Apartheid, relying on two male friends to be her bodyguard in Egypt, deciding her child’s name during a hurricane living on a boa...

Welcome to ALTBAYS Show (feat. Brett Soanes and Leo Magri)  Understand your mind, and you will understand others.  Blair Murray, speaks openly about his life experiences and hopes to shed light on delicate topics that most men would sweep under the rug. Breathe through your problems. Knowledge is king.  Blair is passionate about everything that he does. And he’s done a lot: Years practising as a B...

Welcome to ALTBAYS Show Richard listens to great stories while cutting people’s hair; he thinks about turning all of them into stand-up comedy. Smart. He does not need to go far, as his own life would suit a comedy sketch: From breaking all possible parts of his body to feeling like a giant in Japan eating horse meat, this show has funny moments that will keep you entertained for a couple of hours...

Welcome to ALTBAYS Show  (feat. Leo Magri, Brett Soanes)  Meet Bill Brundell, ashtanga yoga instructor. Bill has travelled the world, surfed many waves and caught many winds until getting to India and finding new pathways in his life. Listen to this inspiring conversation with an Ashtanga Yoga instructor who has a unique approach to life. ALTBAYS Show invites awesome people from Aotearoa, New Zeal...

Welcome to ALTBAYS Show. (feat. Leo Magri, Fabian Roberts)  Meet Abby Lawrence, real estate agent and music lover. Abby sells what people dream about, with the ability to wake them up if she sees that the dream might turn into a nightmare.  It takes authenticity and confidence to talk about hot topics like the New Zealand housing crisis, mental health and economic issues during a pandemic, how con...

Welcome to ALTBAYS Show. (feat. Leo Magri, Christine Threadgold)  Meet Annie Gong, the one-woman symphony orchestra accordionist It takes a lot to become the fastest one of anything in this competitive world. Annie's made it, and no one has beaten her record yet. Her outstanding and impressive musicianship as an accordionist gave her the title of the one-woman symphony orchestra. Discipline i...

Welcome to ALTBAYS Show. (feat. Leo Magri, Christine Threadgold) Meet Caz Jackson, the mind-body messenger. Imagine suffering from chronic pain since you are twelve; Then, by the time you are thirty years old, you see a neurologist who shines a light on something that you'd never thought of before: Maybe you are the one creating all that suffering and pain. Are we capable of healing ourselves...

Welcome to ALTBAYS Show. (feat. Leo Magri, Fabian Roberts) Meet Joanna Mannington, Food, Nutrition and Hospitality teacher. Imagine a world where touching the soil and connecting with the food we are about to cook is part of our everyday lives. Now, imagine students learning in the classroom in the morning, and in the afternoon they are all outside, doing art and growing beautiful plants and food....

Welcome to ALTBAYS Show (feat. Te Paea and Leo Magri) Meet Michael Homfeld, owner of Slice Slice Baby. Raising a child and a sourdough child, visiting a prison in Bolivia where the inmates are in charge, watching the Wu-Tang Clan at the Sydney Opera House. No, this is not one of those crazy dreams night; this is a little taste of Mike's fun journey in this world.  Sit back and relax to listen...

Welcome to ALTBAYS Show. Meet Ihaka Philips, a health practitioner – Alcohol and Drug practitioner who works as a Mataora - Change Agent. Ihaka takes us through his journey of developing passion towards supporting people and making an impact in a world that sometimes disappoint and frustrates us. A frank view on his drug addiction as a teenager, a professional take on how different substances work...

Welcome to ALTBAYS Show. Meet Sugar Spanx and Sapphira L’amour from The Rock n Roll Circus.  Remember that story of the man who was beautifully dressed in a suit, watching the Burlesque show, then nek minnit he is going crazy on stage in the tinniest red g-string? No? Well, these ladies do. Burlesque performances inspire and give the crowd a damn good time. Be ready to laugh, learn something new a...

Welcome to ALTBAYS Show. Leo Magri introduces our two other co-hosts, Brett Soanes and Te Paea Puha. What sports are New Zealanders great at? What was your first concert ever? Can we talk about religion and alcohol in the same podcast? Do we go to school to get credits or to learn something useful? Brett and Te Paea take us on a journey within their minds and show you what ALTABAYS is all about. A...

Welcome to ALTBAYS Show. In this first show, your host, Leo Magri, introduces two of our co-hosts, Christine Threadgold and Fabian Roberts. They explain what ALTBAYS is all about and share some of their life stories, from visiting Taiwan as a child and getting surprised by their 'nap breaks' during school hours to being a music tutor at an early age in the Pacific Island, Rarotonga. ALTB...